English
Related papers

Related papers: Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection and Humor Classifica…

200 papers

The enormous use of sarcastic text in all forms of communication in social media will have a physiological effect on target users. Each user has a different approach to misusing and recognising sarcasm. Sarcasm detection is difficult even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Swapnil Mane , Vaibhav Khatavkar

Sarcasm detection is an essential task that can help identify the actual sentiment in user-generated data, such as discussion forums or tweets. Sarcasm is a sophisticated form of linguistic expression because its surface meaning usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Oxana Vitman , Yevhen Kostiuk , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Multimodal sarcasm detection (MSD) is essential for various downstream tasks. Existing MSD methods tend to rely on spurious correlations. These methods often mistakenly prioritize non-essential features yet still make correct predictions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Diandian Guo , Cong Cao , Fangfang Yuan , Yanbing Liu , Guangjie Zeng , Xiaoyan Yu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Sentiment analysis becomes an essential part of every social network, as it enables decision-makers to know more about users' opinions in almost all life aspects. Despite its importance, there are multiple issues it encounters like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Abdelrahman Kaseb , Mona Farouk

Much previous work has been done in attempting to identify humor in text. In this paper we extend that capability by proposing a new task: assessing whether or not a joke is humorous. We present a novel way of approaching this problem by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Orion Weller , Kevin Seppi

Sentiment classification and sarcasm detection are both important natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Sentiment is always coupled with sarcasm where intensive emotion is expressed. Nevertheless, most literature considers them as two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria , Haiyun Peng , Niyati Chhaya , Erik Cambria , Alexander Gelbukh

Elaborating a series of intermediate reasoning steps significantly improves the ability of large language models (LLMs) to solve complex problems, as such steps would evoke LLMs to think sequentially. However, human sarcasm understanding is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ben Yao , Yazhou Zhang , Qiuchi Li , Jing Qin

This paper makes a simple increment to state-of-the-art in sarcasm detection research. Existing approaches are unable to capture subtle forms of context incongruity which lies at the heart of sarcasm. We explore if prior work can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Aditya Joshi , Vaibhav Tripathi , Kevin Patel , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

Multimodal punchlines, which involve humor or sarcasm conveyed in image-caption pairs, are a popular way of communication on online multimedia platforms. With the rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Kun Ouyang , Yuanxin Liu , Shicheng Li , Yi Liu , Hao Zhou , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Dark humor in online memes poses unique challenges due to its reliance on implicit, sensitive, and culturally contextual cues. To address the lack of resources and methods for detecting dark humor in multimodal content, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Shahid Shafi Dar , Rishi Bharat Junghare , Dhanvin Sanjay Namboodiri , Nagendra Kumar

Since their inception, transformer-based language models have led to impressive performance gains across multiple natural language processing tasks. For Arabic, the current state-of-the-art results on most datasets are achieved by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Amey Hengle , Atharva Kshirsagar , Shaily Desai , Manisha Marathe

Social media abounds with multimodal sarcasm, and identifying sarcasm targets is particularly challenging due to the implicit incongruity not directly evident in the text and image modalities. Current methods for Multimodal Sarcasm Target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongzhan Lin , Zixin Chen , Ziyang Luo , Mingfei Cheng , Jing Ma , Guang Chen

Memes convey meaning through the interaction of visual and textual signals, often combining humor, irony, and offense in subtle ways. Detecting harmful or sensitive content in memes requires accurate modeling of these multimodal cues.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Qiyuan Jin

Understanding satire and humor is a challenging task for even current Vision-Language models. In this paper, we propose the challenging tasks of Satirical Image Detection (detecting whether an image is satirical), Understanding (generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Abhilash Nandy , Yash Agarwal , Ashish Patwa , Millon Madhur Das , Aman Bansal , Ankit Raj , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

In the evolving landscape of online discourse, misinformation increasingly adopts humorous tones to evade detection and gain traction. This work introduces Deceptive Humor as a novel research direction, emphasizing how false narratives,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu , Shankar Biradar , Sunil Saumya

Laughter is a complex social signal that conveys communicative intent beyond amusement. While prior work has focused on isolated laughter analysis tasks, a comprehensive understanding of laughter in real-world scenarios remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Lee Jung-Mok , Kim Sung-Bin , Joohyun Chang , Lee Hyun , Tae-Hyun Oh

Sarcastic speech synthesis, which involves generating speech that effectively conveys sarcasm, is essential for enhancing natural interactions in applications such as entertainment and human-computer interaction. However, synthesizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhu Li , Yuqing Zhang , Xiyuan Gao , Devraj Raghuvanshi , Nagendra Kumar , Shekhar Nayak , Matt Coler

Discourse parsing is an important task useful for NLU applications such as summarization, machine comprehension, and emotion recognition. The current discourse parsing datasets based on conversations consists of written English dialogues…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Divyaksh Shukla , Ritesh Baviskar , Dwijesh Gohil , Aniket Tiwari , Atul Shree , Ashutosh Modi

Metaphor and humor share a lot of common ground, and metaphor is one of the most common humorous mechanisms. This study focuses on the humorous capacity of multimodal metaphors, which has not received due attention in the community. We take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoyu Tong , Zhi Zhang , Pia Sommerauer , Martha Lewis , Ekaterina Shutova

Multimodal sarcasm detection has attracted growing interest due to the rise of multimedia posts on social media. Understanding sarcastic image-text posts often requires external contextual knowledge, such as cultural references or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Soumyadeep Jana , Abhrajyoti Kundu , Sanasam Ranbir Singh